1. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, 6 vols (London, 1948–54) vol. vi, pp. 196–7.
2. Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival (London, 1966) p. 193.
3. For further details see Albert Resis, ‘The Churchill-Stalin “Percentages” Agreement on the Balkans, Moscow, October 1944’, American Historical Review, lxxxiii, pp. 368–87.
4. Elisabeth Barker, ‘British Policy towards Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, 1944–1946’ in Martin McCauley (ed.), Communist Power in Europe, 1944–1949 (London, 1977 ) p. 204.
5. Hugh Dalton Diary, 23 Feb. 1945, quoted in David Dilks (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945 (London, 1971) p. 716.